What processes were responsible for Jupiter’s formation? This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to address as an international pair of scientists investigated the physical, ...

Jupiter, King of the Planets, changed everything. Scientists found that the gas giant wasted little time in becoming a dominant, massive planetary player in our solar system, a mere million years into ...

How did Jupiter’s formation shape the solar system, and specifically Earth’s orbit? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the ...

Jupiter was an early bloomer. New measurements of meteorite ages suggest that the giant planet’s core must have formed within the solar system’s first million years. If so, Jupiter’s presence could ...

Scientists have pinpointed Jupiter's birth to 4.6 billion years ago, a mere 1.8 million years after the solar system's formation. This discovery, gleaned from studying chondrules within meteorites, ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System, and the competition really isn't even close. It's an absolutely massive planet and it helped define what a gas giant planet truly is. Because of its ...